{"id":593,"date":"2013-10-11T05:59:26","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T10:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/markets\/?p=593"},"modified":"2013-10-11T04:59:03","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T09:59:03","slug":"new-york-times-op-ed-inconvenient-uncertainties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/markets\/2013\/10\/11\/new-york-times-op-ed-inconvenient-uncertainties\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times op-ed: Inconvenient Uncertainties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Gernot Wagner &amp; Martin L. Weitzman<\/p>\n<p>The headline in The New York Times yesterday was succinct. \u201cBy 2047, Coldest Years May Be Warmer Than Hottest in Past, Scientists Say.\u201d Not, say, \u201caround 2050\u201d or \u201cwithin our lifetime.\u201d The specificity makes the crisis feel real, imminent and terrible. Call it a convenient truth.<\/p>\n<p>The story was about a new study published this week in the journal Nature that calculated that by 2047, the average temperature will be hotter across most parts of the planet than it had been at those locations in any year between 1860 and 2005.<\/p>\n<p>In truth, attention to the year 2047 is misguided. Climate around the world has already changed to a point where we can perceive humanity\u2019s fingerprint. Extreme weather events like the two hurricanes that hit New York City in the past two years are going to be only more intense in the future.<\/p>\n<p><em>Continue reading at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/10\/11\/opinion\/inconvenient-uncertainties.html\">nytimes.com\/opinion<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Gernot Wagner &amp; Martin L. 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